The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of Iranian Armed Forces, test-fired ballistic missiles against targets in the Indian Ocean as they wrapped up a two-day training session, its official website informed on Saturday, reported AFP.

Dubbed Great Prophet 15, the exercise also included a drone attack on a missile defence system, which was followed by the launch of a barrage of “new generation” surface-to-surface ballistic missiles.

The missiles targeted “the enemy’s battleships and destroyed them from 1,800 kilometres (1,125 miles) away,” according to the Sepahnews website.

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The missiles were fired from central Iran with the targets located in the “northern Indian Ocean,” the Guards said.

A video released by state television showed two missiles being launched and targets being hit at sea.

Iran’s armed forces chief of staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri was present on the second day of the drill, alongside Guards chief Major General Hossein Salami and aerospace commander Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh.

“We do not intend to carry out any attack,” Sepahnews quoted Bagheri as saying. The Major said that the exercise showed Iran’s readiness to defend itself “with all its strength” against any aggressor.

However, Iran has started the drill at a time of rising tensions with the United States in the final days of President Donald Trump’s administration.

It was Iran’s third military exercise in less than two weeks after a naval exercise in the Gulf of Oman on Wednesday and Thursday, and an army drone drill on January 5-6.